On completion of the course, students should satisfactorily understand the basic principles and information's of ship’s stability, and familiar with cargo handling and understanding the properties of diverse type of cargo, cargo safety, and ship stability requirements
Knowledge and Understanding
At the end of the course, students should be able to:
• Describe the effects of density on ships draft and displacement
• Discuss the laws of flotation and group weights.
• Understand the ship transverse and longitudinal stability.
• Understand stable, unstable, neutral equilibriums, and the effect of slack tanks on ship stability
• Estimate the actions in even of a partial loss of intact buoyancy
• Describe cargo handling equipment & safety
• Describe cargo types and its characteristics
• Understand the relation between Stowage plan and Stability Calculations.
Course content
Introduction about ship stability.
Density, Buoyancy and Law of flotation.
Displacement and the effect of density on ship’s draft.
Transverse Statical Stability.
Stable, Unstable and Neutral equilibriums
Slack tanks and free surface effects.
The final Metacentre Height (GM)
Ship’s transverse stability and the List.
Ship’s longitudinal stability and the Trim.
The curve of Statically Stability
Introduction about Cargo handling.
Cargo Handling Equipment & Safety.
Ship’s cargo gear.
Cargo types (Bagged cargo, Refrigerated cargo, Deck Cargo, Dangerous, Hazardous, and Harmful Cargo)
Container cargo and RO- RO cargo
Bulk cargo and Bulk liquefied cargo
Stowage principal.
Stowage plan and Stability Calculations
Cargo documents
